The Non-contributory Monetary Transfers of the Fourth Transformation’s Government in Mexico (2018-2024)

  • Manuel Ignacio Martínez Espinoza Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecniologia. Comisionado al Centro de Estudios Superiores de México y Centroamérica de la Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8766-3530
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/poso.81621
Keywords: social policy, social programs, social spending, poverty, Federal Government, Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Abstract

The article studies the foundations, the implementation, the impact and the relevance of non-contributory monetary transfers (NCMT) during the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who headed what he called the “Government of the Fourth Transformation of Public Life of Mexico” (4T) in the 2018-2024 six-year period.

The study was based, first, on a discursive analysis of the central texts of the 4T Government to examine causal connections between diagnoses, proposals and objectives, and, secondly, on a study of official information sources to investigate the mechanisms, amounts, distribution schemes and results of the NCMT, framing the analysis with a historical and systemic approach to social policy in Mexico.The main results indicate that the NCMT during the presidency of López Obrador favored the increase in household income, even helping to improve poverty levels, but their distribution mechanisms affected the progressivity of social spending in Mexico.It is concluded that, if the country wants to build a universal, redistributive, supportive and comprehensive social protection system, then the social policy based on TMNC must address three latent risks: the disparity in the care of people's life cycles, the familiarization of social policy and fiscal unsustainability.

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Manuel Ignacio Martínez Espinoza, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecniologia. Comisionado al Centro de Estudios Superiores de México y Centroamérica de la Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas

Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.
Posdoctorado en el PROIMMSE-IIA de la UNAM.
Posdoctorado en el CESMECA de la UNICACH.
Doctor en Procesos Políticos Contemporáneos (Universidad de Salamanca).
Integrante del equipo de investigación del “Observatorio de las Democracias: Sur de México y Centroamérica” del CESMECA-UNICACH.

Mis líneas de investigación y trabajo académico han versado sobre el significado, construcción y posibilidades de la democracia y la ciudadanía, teniendo como casos de estudio al zapatismo, los pueblos indígenas, las políticas de desarrollo social y el extractivismo minero en América Latina.

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Published
2024-11-26
How to Cite
Martínez Espinoza M. I. (2024). The Non-contributory Monetary Transfers of the Fourth Transformation’s Government in Mexico (2018-2024). Política y Sociedad, 61(3), e81621. https://doi.org/10.5209/poso.81621
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Vol. 61 No. 3 (2024)
Section
Miscelaneus

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